The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-12-22

SANDS HOPKINS, Of Kansas City, who in one
year spent . fortune Of 81, 600, 900 fn riot
ous living, committed suicide on the 14th
by taking poison.
The Excelsior pail factory and the starch
mills at E.khart, Ind, were burned on the
14th Loss. $116. 900.
On the 14th Wong All Lung, Chinaman
OF San Francisco, was sentenced to ten
years. imprisonment and fined 81, 600 for
importing women into the country for i'm
moral purposes
THIEVES on the 14th broke into the store
and dwelling Of Thomas Powell at Kilgore,
KY, choked his daughter to death. fright.
fully beat the old man and stole 5000
A FIRE on the 14th destroyed the greater
part OF Pocahontas, Tenn
JUDGE SMRAs. in the United States Dis
trict Court Mt Dubuque, La, on the 14th re-
mauded to the State courts all the brewery
and saloon cases which had been removed
to his court It was said that this action
foreshadowed the closing up Of all the sa-
date
MRS FASNY HUSBANDS, living near Merid-
ian, Mics. was robbed by : negro on the
10Th. who afterwards cut ont her tongue
A STORM blew down hotel at Crescent,
Cal, on the 18th. and two persons were
killed and fourteen others badly injured
MANY buildings at st Augustine, Fla, were
burned on the 18th, causing loss Of $780,
600
A CONVENTION OF delegates. representing
all the counties In Dakota, was held al
Aberdeen on the 18th, and q memorial to
Congress was adopted praying that body
to pass an enabling act admitting Dakots
to the Union az one State
FIRE in thu business district Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn. destroyed property on the
10th valued ut $1OO.OOO
AT the twentieth annual meeting in Chi.
cago on the 18Th Of the Freedman's Aid So
ciety of the Methodist Church 1t was shown
that in the past twenty years over one
hundred thousand negroes had been edu-
Gated The society has property valued o,
| 81, 100000
On the 18th the three young sons of Win.
lam Brewer, living near Toledo. O., were
| crushed to death by tree which fell on
them
THREE men stopped stage running be.
| tween Little Rock and Carrollton, Ark, on
5000 and two gold watches
Ar Shelbyville. Tenn. square of bust
ness buildings was burned on the 10Th
| causing q loss OF over 800. OO0
CHARLES MCcUI.LoM and Silas Malcolm. or
trial at Newton, Ill, for the murder o
| George Bowen, were both found guilty OF
| the 10th and sentenced to twenty-five
years imprisonment
TEE business portion OF Mapleton, D. T..
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on th.
| 10th
A coLoRED man named William Aiken
said to be one hundred and three years old
was married on the 18th in Columbia, s. G.
| to Susan Watson, young widow thirty
three years old
In family quarrel on the 10th at Ken
ton, O., Charles Thomas stabbed and killet
his niece. Miss Briggs. and fatally cut BIZ
brothers wife,
The coal famine still continued In West
ern Kansas on the 26th. $12 80 per ton be
| ing paid for an inferior quality, and yer,
little to be had at that price
/ GEORGE GREEN, a notorious cattle thief
was lynched near Pennington, Fla, on tn,
/ 10th.
| CHARLES BELLOWS was hanged at Charlie
City, Ia-, on the 10Th for the murder Of Alic
Waterman This was the first execution il
| the State since 1868
Ar Columbus, Ark, Charles Whitsett
half-witted boy, aged thirteen years, on th
18th cut on the heads Of his brother, age
nine years and his sister, aged sIx years